Madiya or Maria is a

Dravidian language The Dravidian languages (or sometimes Dravidic) are a family of languages spoken by 250 million people, mainly in southern India, north-east Sri Lanka, and south-west Pakistan. Since the colonial era, there have been small but significant i ...

spoken in

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. It may be regarded as a dialect of Gondi, but is suspected to be

mutually unintelligible In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort. It is sometimes used as an ...

with most other Gondi varieties.

Phonology

Phonology of Abhuj Maria: Hill Maria has 3 additional consonants: a glottal stop /ʔ/, a retroflex nasal /ɳ/, and a uvular fricative /ʁ/. In 2019, a former professor published the first book in the Madiya language.

References

Agglutinative languages Dravidian languages Languages of India {{Dr-lang-stub sv:Gond#Dialekter